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BME Community Young Persons Pilot Project

NewLink Wales is very proud to now have a very experienced and dedicated staff team working within its BME Service who have been actively raising awareness about Substance Misuse to communities in Cardiff for the past 7 years. Providing education workshops, one to one support, volunteering opportunities and much more for individuals from age 16 years onwards.

Whilst liaising with the various different age groups and ethnicities staff were receiving feedback regarding needs and concerns of young people from the communities. Many of these issues were raised by concerned family members and others from young people themselves.

A scoping exercise was undertaken to assess the needs of young people and what NewLink Wales could do to address them.
The aims of the scoping exercise were -

To identify needs of young people and families from black and minority communities who are currently at risk, or may have needs with issues related to substance misuse
To identify issues and concerns of BME communities relating to young people and access to substance misuse services with families, young people and community leaders

Take a look at the report below for full details of what the team did and the findings:

Black and Minority Ethnic Community Young Persons Pilot Project